We HAVE open borders, Anonymous. (Except for Americans who travel abroad and then return. In that case, you BETTER have your documents in order or you ain't gettin' back in.) It is to the benefit of the authoritarians in government that we do, so we do. Sanctuary cities drawing people from socialist countries who won't know the difference when they vote for anti-American candidates like Obama. You didn't think it was due to government incompetence and negligence, did you? Also, Corporate America is tired of paying employee benefits. If you're here illegally, you can't report them for abuse. Supply and demand for "animate capital" that's cheap and disposable.

Fro Defender:Actually, to keep the Unions happy the courts have now ruled that illegals CAN INDEED sue for abuse without ANY FEAR of being deported. Not that deportation has been likely ANYWAY for QUITE A FEW years now.

Paul to answer your question, an M-16 is not an automatic weapon since you have to pull the trigger after each shot unless your on tri-burst then its every 3 rounds, a Squad AutoMatic weapon or Saw, m-60, M2 .50 cal, etc, one thing you will knotice with these three weapons is that they are belt fed. those are considered an automatic weapon since you just hold the trigger down till you run out of ammo but that is not a good way to use precious ammo, short controlled bursts of three rounds to 5 rounds.

Paul, that would depend on the Fire Control Group and related parts in the M-16. There are some that were issued or modified to be semi-only.

I've seen plenty of semi-auto only M-16s over the years just like I've seen plenty of ARs with M-16 parts in them.

If you have a registered auto-sear/fire-control group, it doesn't need be "married" to a particular firearm, either, as the sear is considered a MG in and of itself and any rifles you have around it could potentially fit in that are in a semi-auto configuration are NOT MGs. You can have a Stoner pattern rifle, or many of them, maybe an assortment of uppers, and one registered sear that counts as one solitary MG all by itself that could be used in any lower.

Full-auto M-16s and AK-47s -- and Russian RPGs and Browning 50.-cal machine guns, as seen in police press conferences (along with literally tons of cocaine and marijuana -- from points south like Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. Semi-auto AR-15s -- our workhorse American militia rifle -- confiscated from Americans and smuggled into Mexico from here.

MIKE -Be honest - do YOU write some of the more openly idiotic posts signed "anonymous' to give us a laugh? If so, it's OK, they are hysterically funny.My fave, so far -

"Over 500 people a day are shot in this country, including suicides. ":o) :o) :o)Which would work out to what, about182,500 people per year... so that in a period of five years, every human being in the USA has been shot.Must have just been a flesh wound for me - I never even felt it. Just call me 'The Duke'.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.